LoriMashburn

White House Liaison

White House Liaison for the Department of the Interior

Lori Mashburn is serving as “Interior’s White House liaison.”

After attending North Carolina State University, Lori Mashburn went to work at the Institute on Religion and Democracy, a think tank that has denounced “Christian advocacy on behalf of the poor” as “worshiping ‘big government.'” Then in 2011, Mashburn went to work for conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, which receives considerable funding from ExxonMobil and the Koch brothers. Most recently, Mashburn worked as a “Policy Coordinator & Advisor” on Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

Background Information

Previous Employers

Lori Mashburn, from 2009 to 2011, worked at the Institute on Religion and Democracy, a political think tank that has denounced “Christian advocacy on behalf of the poor” as “worshiping ‘big government.'”

Launched by a Catholic priest and an American Enterprise Institute fellow, the Institute for Religion and Democracy is a “political think tank aligned with far-right conservative political causes” that has denounced “Christian advocacy on behalf of the poor” as “worshiping ‘big government.'”

Before joining the Trump administration, Lori Mashburn worked at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that “has received almost $800,000 from ExxonMobil and millions from the family foundations of the oil billionaire Koch brothers.”

Lori Mashburn worked at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, from October 2011 to June 2015 as a “coalition relations associate,” and starting in June 2015, worked as the associate director of coalition relations. The Heritage Foundation “has received almost $800,000 from ExxonMobil and millions from the family foundations of the oil billionaire Koch brothers.”